Project Governance

This project is in its infancy and so is its governance. That said, here’s a start for how it all works.

Roles

Contributors can play the following roles in the project:

Lead Maintainer

As this project is currently led by imbytech, the project lead and lead maintainer is imby’s CTO, Bruno Girin. In addition to the responsibilities of the Core Maintainers, the Lead Maintainer is responsible for:

• The overall solution design

• Prioritising issues

• Reviewing merge requests from Core Maintainers and Contributors

Core Maintainers

The Core Maintainers are current the imbytech team and their responsibilities include:

• Implementing core functionality

• Reviewing merge requests from Contributors

Contributors

Contributors are all people who contribute to the project, whether it be through issues or merge requests. Contributions can include documentation, code, or anything that improves the project. No particular qualification is required to become a contributor.

Governance Changes

Any changes to the list of roles or any other governance aspect should be done by opening a project issue in GitLab and tagging it with the Governance label. Explain the aspect of governance you would like to change and why.

This project is currently run by a private company, imby and the Lead Maintainer is a single individual. This is appropriate for the moment but will need to change if this project is used more widely. We welcome any suggestion on how to implement proper governance to transition to a more open model in the future.

Policies and Procedures

We don’t yet have many policies and procedures. The key one is our Code of Conduct.